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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on May 20, 2012 6:15:32 GMT -5
The Sid/Benoit match was for the title Bret vacated after Starrcade. Don't know if they knew at the time Bret was done for good, but that couldn't have happened due to Bret's injury. Also, is there a Mike Graham shoot where he claims to have beaten up Haku and Harley Race in the same night yet?
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2012 7:41:58 GMT -5
Kevin Sullivan, Wurld Hevvywait Champyon, bruddah!
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Post by tigermaskxxxvii on May 20, 2012 10:56:36 GMT -5
And for f***'s sake Mike, wear a f***ing shirt with sleeves! The guy doesn't have a concealed weapons permit, therefore it's actually illegal for him to hide those guns! Kevin Sullivan, Wurld Hevvywait Champyon, bruddah! If the guy can book his own divorce, then theoretically he should be able to book his own reconciliation. "Ok Chris, I hit you with the 'Tree of Woe'. You leave the ring, grab the belt come back into the ring. You go to your knees and start crying and say 'I surrender my title to you Mistah Sullivan, just stop hurting me!'. Then Nancy comes into the ring and embraces me saying how she always loved me and how well endowed I am, especially compared to Benoit!" That or Chris Benoit vs Mike Graham (the smarks on the 'net will love it!) in a decapitation match that doesn't end in decapitation. Also, Benoit getting the belt wasn't so much to get him to sign a new contract as it was to get him to stop asking for a release from his already existing one. Benoit, The Radicalz, Konan and Douglas were all offered unconditional releases, then management reneged. So Benoit was given the belt to quell an insurrection. Which was all for naught as Sullivan's reemergence in WCW's booking riled them up again.
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Post by zeez on May 20, 2012 12:03:35 GMT -5
With Kevin Sullivan at the helm? Who the f*** knows. This, though you could certainly say the same with Russo. WCW in 2000 was the definition of throwing crap against the wall and seeing what stuck. More like they were throwing crap against the wall and seeing what stunk. And it turned out to be all of it. Yeah!
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Post by kingoftheindies on May 20, 2012 19:07:02 GMT -5
OK, so let me get this straight: They gave Benoit the title with his contract running out. Didn't Benoit and the rest of the Radicalz ask for their release the next night? What I'm asking is, did WCW really release their World Champion? According to Death of WCW, they had asked for releases, Bill Bush had calmed them down initially. Then released all of the wrestlers that asked for it but Benoit, and Benoit said just cause he was World Champ doesn't mean he's staying. He offered to drop the title clean to Sid. But as mentioned earlier (and by SEVERAL people over the years), Bret and Jarrett were center stage for the new booking regime but both got hurt with concussions (Bret's got worst cause he kept performing and when they found out how bad it was, they decided to hold Jarrett off the ppv as a precaution). They then were gonna build a story between Sid and Benoit because Sid's leg was under the rope when he tapped, but Benoit wanted his immediate release... so they had 3 rewrites in short notice. And like Mike Graham or not, the one thing I have seen a lot of ex WCW guys say is that Sullivan never took liberties with Benoit in or out of the wring, and Sullivan was at least a part of the booking team since 1996 nor did he ever bury Benoit to the office. So the feeling seemed to be what they did to him when he became main booker was bush league.
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on May 20, 2012 19:20:55 GMT -5
As far as Mike Graham is concerned, if he told me the sky was blue, I'd have to look out the window to see for myself.
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Post by thegame415 on May 20, 2012 22:12:00 GMT -5
The whole thing still seems so odd to me. Were all of them near the end of their contracts?
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